puzzles

The first is algorithmic problem solving, which is often better taught using logic puzzles and games rather than programming trivial if-then statements.

They included a little making of featurette that included a great line about how every player experiences puzzles differently.

There are at least a couple of key puzzles that can be solved in several ways...and in different order.

My grandfather constructed crossword puzzles for several magazines and newspapers, from 1955 until his death this year, 90 years old.

If you like reading stories with carefully designed worlds, hyper-analytic heroes, and clever puzzles, that's fine.

The ability to grok and manipulate the problem setting is more important, so how you react to puzzles tells me something.

Also, many of the subquests are optional and you can beat the game after solving only about 50% of the puzzles.

I think the puzzles should be community-defined in some easy to create format (json, xml, etc) if possible.

Based on the different environments, you will explore amazing gameplay mechanics which makes the puzzles not only interesting but also pretty challenging.

Of course there are always doofy puzzles too, but those weren't a focus.

I would think any 10 year old with a knack for puzzles would know of these.

She manages to build tension and leave the reader longing for more without resorting to cheap puzzles or turning the heroes into masters of manipulation.

Still can't solve 3-D puzzles ("which of these diagrams is the same as this one") worth a damn.

I was shocked that it's considered to be a "good" newspaper by some This puzzles me too, to a degree.

The dungeon "puzzles" are almost insultingly easy, too.

Not being able to do the math, or the puzzles, or whatever, is not a "no hire" - it's a place to start talking about other strengths, abilities, interests, and potential contributions.

Anany and Maria Levitin's book, Algorithmic Puzzles, is a good example of the genre.